Niklaus Wirth

11.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
118 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Niklaus Wirth is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Niklaus Wirth has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 32 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Niklaus Wirth's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (33 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (24 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (18 papers). Niklaus Wirth is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (33 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (24 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (18 papers). Niklaus Wirth collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Niklaus Wirth's co-authors include Kathleen Jensen, C. A. R. Hoare, Helmut Weber, Kathleen Jensen, George E. Forsythe, Paul Abrahams, Jürg Gutknecht, Hanspeter Mössenböck, M. Reiser and Harry D. Huskey and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Mathematics of Computation and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Niklaus Wirth

104 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Data Structures and Algorithms 1971 2026 1989 2007 1984 1971 1971 250 500 750

Peers

Niklaus Wirth
Comparison fields: 5 of 155
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.2k
  • Hardware and Architecture 1.8k
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 1.6k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 1.5k
  • Information Systems 1.3k
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niklaus Wirth

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
The Dawn of Software Engineering: from Turing to Dijkstra
8
2
Tasks versus Threads: An Alternative Multiprocessing Paradigm.
9
3 3
4
Gedanken zur Software-Exlosion.
3
5
Project Oberon: the design of an operating system and compiler
67
6 1
7 2
8
Algorithms & data structures
67
9
Programming in MODULA-2 (3rd corrected ed.)
12
10 3
11
On the composition of well-structured programs
1
12 127
13 266
14
Algorithms and data structures= programs
7
15
On PASCAL, code generation, and the CDC 6000 computer.
9
16
Closing word at Zurich Colloquium
2
17
The PL360 system
3
18
A programming language for the 360 computers
15
19
Additional Notes on - Contribution to the Development of ALGOL
2
20
A proposal for a report on a successor of Algol 60
2

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